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PagePlus X2 - Additional Features

Serif PagePlus X2

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Integrated graphics tools, long document handling, and multilingual support are some of the power-user features of PagePlus.
Page Layout and How To Tab in PagePlus X2

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With this edition of PagePlus, Serif provides a Microsoft Windows certified desktop publishing and PDF editing software.

Additional Features in PagePlus X2

  • Layers and Master Pages
    Put repeating elements on multiple Master Pages or place elements on Layers within documents. Master Pages have layers too.

  • BookPlus
    Combine multiple PagePlus publications into one document with common styles and palettes across publication. Generate an index, table of contents, page numbering.

  • Pages Tab
    Easily add or remove or rearrange pages in a document, including Master Pages.

  • Mail & Photo Merge
    Add data from Microsoft Excel, Access, Outlook Mail, and other sources.

  • Drawing Tools
    Use the included drawing tools and customisable QuickShapes to work on logos and other artwork from within PagePlus.

  • Fills
    Fill shapes and artistic text with solid colors, Gradient Fills, or textured bitmap fills. Create your own fills.

  • Transparency
    Add transparency effects or create transparency fills from your own images.

  • Filter Effects
    Apply shadows, glows, bevels, embossing, and other 3D effects without altering the original object.

  • Image Adjustments & Effects
    Use built-in image correction and enhancement tools such as Brightness & Contrast, Shadows & Highlights, and Motion Blur.

  • Import Adobe Photoshop Files
    Supports direct import of Photoshop files.

  • Text Frames
    Place text in standard or preset shaped text frames.

  • Artistic Text
    Add transparency, bitmap or gradient fills, bevels, and other effects to artistic text.

  • Multilingual Support
    Use 11 different languages and 14 dictionaries.

  • Find & Replace
    Search text as well as text attributes, fonts, colors, and many other aspects to find specific locations in a document.

  • Table of Contents & Index
    Uses named styles for headings, subheadings, and titles to automatically create a TOC. Includes indexing tools too.

  • PDF Forms
    Create forms that recipients can fill in, save, print, or submit electronically.

  • ICC Color Profiling
    Set up International Color Constorium profiles for you monitor, printer, and scanner.

  • Printing
    Set up documents for commericial or desktop printing including several pages on one sheet or spreading a single page across multiple sheets.

  • Publish to Web
    Design a Web page or convert print documents to Web documents.
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